Issued:

2013-06-03

Updated:

2013-06-03

RHSA-2013:0897 - Important: mesa security update

Synopsis

Important: mesa security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

Updated mesa packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links in the References section.

Description

Mesa provides a 3D graphics API that is compatible with Open Graphics Library (OpenGL). It also provides hardware-accelerated drivers for many popular graphics chips.

An out-of-bounds access flaw was found in Mesa. If an application using Mesa exposed the Mesa API to untrusted inputs (Mozilla Firefox does this), an attacker could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-1872)

It was found that Mesa did not correctly validate messages from the X server. A malicious X server could cause an application using Mesa to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application. (CVE-2013-1993)

All users of Mesa are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications linked against Mesa must be restarted for this update to take effect.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc64.rpm
• glx-utils-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-demos-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390x.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
• glx-utils-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
• mesa-demos-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
• glx-utils-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
• mesa-debuginfo-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
• mesa-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.src.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
• mesa-demos-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc.rpm
• glx-utils-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390x.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390x.rpm
• mesa-demos-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390.rpm
• mesa-libGL-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.i686.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390x.rpm
• mesa-libOSMesa-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc64.rpm
• mesa-libGL-devel-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc.rpm
• mesa-libGLU-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.s390.rpm
• mesa-dri-drivers-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.x86_64.rpm
• mesa-dri-filesystem-9.0-0.8.el6_4.3.ppc.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 923584
• This content is not included.BZ - 961613

CVEs

• CVE-2013-1993
• CVE-2013-1872

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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